Principle of Mediocrity

The false idea that people are cosmically insignificant.

Contradicted by people's unique capacity for Knowledge creation and unbounded Progress. Universal explainers are the only known entities that can reverse the Hierarchy Rule, transform the physical world at arbitrary scales, and create new explanations.

Connections

• •A form of Pessimism — denying human significance
• •A form of false Anthropocentrism in reverse — arbitrarily denigrating humans
• •Contradicted by Universal Explainer — people have genuinely unique capacities
• •Contradicted by the Hierarchy Rule reversal — knowledge makes small entities cosmically significant
• •Denies Personhood its proper status
• •The Great Monotony ended precisely because of what people (and their precursors) can do
• •Opposed by The Principle of Optimism